Execute a terminal command from a Cocoa app

Http://stackoverflow.com/questions/412562/execute-a-terminal-command-from-a-cocoa-app

In the spirit of sharing ... this was a method I use frequently to run shell scripts. You can add a script to your product bundle (in the copy phase of the "build") and then the script is read and run at R Untime. Note:this code looks for the script in the Privateframeworks Sub-path. Warning:this could be a security risk for deployed products, but for our in-house development ize simple Things (like which host to rsync ...) without re-compiling the application, but just editing the shell script In the bundle.

//-------------------------------------------------------(void)RunScript:(NSString*)ScriptName{ Nstask *Task;Task= [[NstaskAlloc]Init]; [Task Setlaunchpath: @"/bin/sh"]; Nsarray *Arguments; NSString*NewPath= [NSStringstringWithFormat:@"%@/%@",[[NSBundleMainbundle]Privateframeworkspath],ScriptName]; NSLog(@"Shell script path:%@",NewPath);Arguments= [NsarrayArraywithobjects:NewPath,Nil]; [Task Setarguments:Arguments]; Nspipe *Pipe;Pipe= [NspipePipe]; [Task Setstandardoutput:Pipe]; Nsfilehandle *File;File= [Pipe filehandleforreading]; [Task launch]; NSData *Data;Data= [File Readdatatoendoffile nsstring *string string = [[nsstring< Span class= "PLN" > Alloc] Initwithdata:: Nsutf8stringencoding]; Span class= "Typ" >nslog  (@ "script returned:\n%@" , String}//------------------------------------------------------  

Execute a terminal command from a Cocoa app